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Title: Ms. Bixby’s Last Day Author: John David Anderson Publisher: Walden Pond Press ISBN: 9780062338174 Audience: Ages 8-12 Summary: In the taxonomy of teachers devised by the sixth-grade protagonists of this novel, Ms. Bixby is one of the rare “Good Ones,” the kind that make

Title: This is Our Baby Born Today Author: Varsha Bajaj Illustrator: Eliza Wheeler Publisher: Nancy Paulsen Books Publication Date: August 2, 2016 ISBN: 978-0399166846 Audience: 3 – 5 years Summary: A small grey elephant is born and a host of family members and even the earth,

The earliest stories of our faith describe a wandering people. And the Israelites are told to remember the experience of having to leave their homes and use it to inform their lives after they are settled again. “You shall not wrong a stranger or oppress him, for you were

Title: My Three Best Friends and Me, Zulay Author: Cari Best Illustrator: Vanessa Brantley-Newton Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux ISBN: 9780374388195 Audience: 4-8 years Summary: Zulay is a typical first grader, and she tells of a typical day in her happy classroom: her

Name of Book: Shelter Folks Author: Virginia L. Kroll Illustrator: Jan Naimo Jones Publisher: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1996 ISBN: 9780802851314 Audience: Ages 9 and up Summary: This is the story of nine year old Joelle and her family, who have to move into a

Title: When No One Is Watching Author: Eileen Spinelli Illustrator: David A. Johnson Publisher: Eerdmans Books for young Readers ISBN: 9780802853035 Audience: Age 3-7 Summary: The unnamed narrator of this picture book is exuberant and brave and full of passionate song and